Srikanth Sastry Explained

Srikanth Sastry should not be confused with S. Srikanta Sastri.

Srikanth Sastry
Nationality:	Indian
Field:	Physics

Srikanth Sastry is an Indian physicist. He is a Boston University alumnus and he along with Raghunathan Srianand were awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in physical sciences in 2008.

Sastry received his PhD from Boston University in 1993. Since then he has held roles as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health and at Princeton University. In 1998 he became faculty fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and since 2003 he has held a position as associate professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. He is currently a professor at the Theoretical Science Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur campus, Bangalore.

Sastry's research interests are:

• Slow dynamics in super cooled liquids and glass transition
• Metastable liquids
• Phase transitions and kinetics of phase transformation
• Statistical geometry
• Anomalous thermodynamic and dynamic properties of water and other network forming liquids
• Statistical mechanics of biomolecular systems.

Recognition

Sastry is the recipient of

• Swarnajayanthi Fellowship:^[1]
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards 2008:^[2]
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2022^[3]

External links

• http://www.jncasr.ac.in/sastry

Notes and References

1. Web site: serc-dst.org . serc-dst.org . 2016-12-01.
2. Web site: The Hindu News Update Service . 2008-10-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080929063025/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200809261647.htm . 2008-09-29 .
3. Web site: Fellows nominated in 2022. APS Fellows archive. American Physical Society. 2022-10-19.